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Bayern star Mario Gomez to join Fiorentina

Striker set to sign a contract with Italian club ‘in the next one to two weeks’

AFP

Published: 21:10 July 8, 2013

Berlin: Bayern Munich announced on Monday that striker Mario Gomez will join Italian side Fiorentina.

Champions League winners Bayern said an agreement had been reached “in principle” for the 27-year-old, who found his place in the Bavarian team taken by Mario Manduzkic last season.

The two clubs had been negotiating over the transfer for some time, with Bayern saying last week the deal was dead as the Florentine club were reportedly unwilling to meet the German double winners’ €20 million (Dh94.21 million) asking price.

Bayern’s communications director Markus Horwick said a contract until 2017 should be signed “in the next one to two weeks.” Gomez is expected to earn around four million euros a season.